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Money isn't everything, according to Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson's "increasingly despondent" tweets:
Shortly after the sale of Minecraft's parent company, Mojang's co-founder Markus Persson had reportedly left the studio in order to pursue other projects. Naturally, before immediately moving on to another enterprise, the man more affectionately known in the gaming community as "Notch" has taken several beats to reap the benefits of his success, outbidding Beyoncé and Jay-Z on a $70 million home, and hosting lavish parties in his newly acquired mansion. However, he's also been afforded plenty of time to reflect on how far he's come, and not surprisingly, it's quite lonely at the top.
Recently, Notch took to his Twitter account to air his grievances with the current situation in which he finds himself. Although Persson's net worth currently rests at $1.33 billion as of writing, the famous game designer has confessed that such prosperity has essentially cursed him in the grand scheme of things, as he's "never felt more isolated". Apparently what John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote all those years ago is true, and it's that money can't buy love. Taking that into consideration, Notch's Tweets grow increasingly despondent, as seen below.
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The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
Hanging out in ibiza with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people, able to do whatever I want, and I've never felt more isolated.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
In sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
When we sold the company, the biggest effort went into making sure the employees got taken care of, and they all hate me now.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
Found a great girl, but she's afraid of me and my life style and went with a normal person instead.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
I would Musk and try to save the world, but that just exposes me to the same type of assholes that made me sell minecraft again.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
(Score: 4, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 31 2015, @01:26PM
Bit of timeless wisdom from Chris Janson:
If you can't be happy fishing, you're in dire need of some medication.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Monday August 31 2015, @02:26PM
I read that the first time as "meditation" which would probably be good advice. He can likely afford a few thousand lifetimes of zen retreats...
The guy needs an education, also. Obviously he never got one. The original purpose of education was to give idle rich young adult noblemen some topics and outlooks to consider for the rest of their lives while they kind of sat around and plotted against each other. It only later, recently, got perverted into a job training program for aspirational middle class consumers. If he seriously can't figure out what to do for the rest of his idle life, then he needs a nice liberal arts degree, give him some culture beyond MTV to think about for more than a couple minutes.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Alfred on Monday August 31 2015, @04:07PM
In contrast I wouldn't mind trying to figure out the combination of or picking a lock.
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 31 2015, @05:14PM
Fair enough, I'm aware there're certain personality disorders that cause otherwise sane folks to not like fishing. Doesn't make you bad people, just a little weird.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @09:29PM
You catch fish when you go out? I thought it was just a way to get to a nice, quiet place to drink beer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @06:59PM
What's so good about fishing?
If I want to sit and do nothing, I'll just sit and meditate.
If I want to enjoy nature, I'll go for a walk in the country.
If I want to to have a drink, I can do that in front of a TV or at a pub with some friends.
I just don't see the appeal of it. Though I guess it doesn't help that I don't much like eating fish either.
So, can you enlighten me why it is something you think all normal people should enjoy?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 03 2015, @12:52AM
Largely because you get to do all of the above at once. It does help if you like eating fish but mastering a skill for the sake of mastering is also its own reward.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.